Heel for boots or shoes



S. WILDE.

HEEL FOR BOOTS AND SHOES.

(No Model.)

No. 285,194. Patented Sept. 18, 1883.

WITNESSES: 6 m

ATTORNEY S.

N PETERS. PhoIo-Lrlhagraphor. Waahinglon. n. c.

shell of sole-leather.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL WILDE, OF WVILLI AMS, CALIFORNIA.

HE EL FOR BOOTS OR SHOES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 285,194, datedSeptember 18, 1883.

Application filed December 19, 1882. (No model.)

The object of the invention is to make a low heel independent of andreadily attachable to the boot or shoe, as hereinafter described. i

Figure l of the drawings is a view in perspective of my improved heel.Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section, and Fig. 3 a verticalcross-section.

In the drawings, A represents a seamless B is the bottom plate, which isattached by tacks or screws to the lower edge of the shell. 0 is thefilling, which preferably consists of waste scraps mixed with cavity. Dis the top concaved cap, which re ceives the eorrespondingly-shapedheelbottom of the shoe, and is fastened thereto by the ordinarydouble-pointed tacks or the common channel-tacks. the stiffener into theinsole and are clinched.

I thus form a heel adapted to nailed, pegged, or machine made boots orshoes. My heel is simple, inexpensive, and easily applied.

What I claim as new and of my invention 0 is A boot or shoe heel formedof the seamless leather shell A, the bottom lift, B, the filling G, andthe top concaved cap, D, as shown and described.

SAllgUEL WILDE. Witnesses P. H. GRAHAM, J. A. MOKEE.

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